S ustained increases among homosexual men of unsafe sexual behaviour, sexually transmitted infections, and HIV have caused much concern. HIV transmission among homosexual men continues despite the use of antiretroviral therapy that lowers infectiousness. The idea that ‘‘treatment optimism’’ has led to ‘‘behavioural disinhibition’’ has attracted much attention although recent data suggest it is ...

It is self-evident, I suppose, that I am conspicuously taking exception to the all-tao-prevalent idea that things are pretty well fixed in the Jesuitical first seven years. This idea has constituted one of the greatest problems for some anthropologists who have tried to translate psychiatric thought into anthropologically useful ideas. The anthropologists have noised at them from all sides the ...

This paper proposes to examine the evidence for homosexuality among early medieval Scandinavian peoples, popularly known as Vikings. A variety of literary, legal, and religious sources from Iceland Norway provide an indirect window on Viking attitudes towards homosexuality. These include sagas such Njal's Saga, Ljósvetninga Kristni Gisla Biskupa Sögur Íslenska Bókmenntafélag, Fóstbræðra Saga al...

Whether animals ever exhibit a preference for same-sex sexual partners is a subject of debate. Japanese macaques represent excellent models for examining issues related to sexual preference in animals because females, in certain populations, routinely engage in both heterosexual and homosexual behavior over the course of their life spans. Multiple lines of evidence indicate that female homosexu...

Using the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) national data from 1990 to 2015, we propose a method to identify potentially homosexual borrowers without requiring any self-disclosure on sexual orientation. Augmenting the HMDA data with the classical 1990 Boston Fed data and Fannie Mae Loan Performance data, we test whether their perceived homosexual status affects the approval, cost, and perform...

Previous research using the Mood and Sexuality Questionnaire (MSQ) has revealed substantial variability in how negative mood impacts sexual response and behavior. However, the MSQ does not address differences between desire for solo or partnered sexual activity, examine the effects of sexual activity on mood, or assess the effects of positive mood. This article presents the development and fact...

Previous research suggests that prenatal testosterone affects the 2D:4D finger ratio in humans, and it has been speculated that prenatal testosterone also affects gender identity differentiation. If both things are true, then one would expect to find an association between the 2D:4D ratio and gender identity. We measured 2D:4D in two samples of patients with gender identity disorder (GID). In S...

Follicle lysis is a characteristic alteration of B cell follicles described recently in lymph node biopsies from homosexual men. It consists of disruption of germinal centers by aggregates of small mature lymphocytes variably associated with erythrocyte extravasation. We studied the immunohistology of follicle lysis identified in lymph node biopsies from 1 1 homosexual men. The results indicate...

I rom the beginning, the response to AIDS has been complicated by its connection with homosexuality. For a short time after its initial "discovery" on the two coasts of the United States it was known as GRID (Gay-Related Immunodeficiency Disease), and even as awareness of its existence amongst other groups increased, both within the United States and other parts of the world, that link remained...

This article focuses on the organization of the erotic lives of young men who engage in homosexual practices. The reflections presented here are based on ethnographic research including observation in places of homosociability and interviews with young men in Rio de Janeiro reporting homosexual practices. By presenting erotic scenes pertaining to a homoerotic circuit and recording the sexual tr...